Eight killed in China shop fire

EIGHT people have been killed and two injured after a fire broke out in a street shop China's Jiangsu province.

The state-run news agency Xinhua reported the weekend's blaze broke out on the first floor of a six-storey building in the city of Suzhou, the metropolitan area of which has more than 10 million residents.

Two people perished at the scene and six others died later at a local hospital.

The condition of the two people who survived is not known, Xinhua said.

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